Home Services
Re-Bath Franchise
A bathroom-remodeling franchise offering full remodels, tub-and-shower updates, and aging-in-place accessibility solutions, sold through in-home consultations rather than a storefront. Predecessors have offered Re-Bath franchises since 1991; the current franchisor entity was formed in Delaware in 2001 and is now owned by private equity firm TZP Group through several holding companies. Franchised unit count grew every year in the FDD's three-year window, with no company-owned locations at all.
Every franchisor has to file a document called an FDD before they can legally sell you a franchise. Buried in it are the two things a sales rep won't volunteer: what you'll actually spend to open, and whether existing locations are opening or closing. That's what's below, pulled straight from Re-Bath's own filing.
What it costs to open
From the filing's investment breakdown -- not a "starting at" number a sales rep quoted you.
Franchise fee
$50,000
Total to open
$275,875–$606,925
Ongoing royalty
Not a %-of-revenue fee -- see FDD
What you'd actually spend, over time
The upfront cost is only part of it. Plug in what you expect a location to bring in, and see the real total once royalties over a few years are added on top.
Defaulted to a rough home services industry average, not a figure from Re-Bath's own FDD -- change it to your own estimate.
Startup investment (royalty not included -- see below)
$275,875 – $606,925
Re-Bath doesn't charge a straightforward percentage-of-revenue royalty -- its FDD describes a different ongoing-fee structure instead. That cost isn't included in the total above; check the FDD directly for the real terms before using this figure to compare against other franchises.
When would you break even?
Revenue alone doesn't tell you this -- it depends on what's left after rent, labor, and everything else. Re-Bath's FDD doesn't disclose a reliable profit figure (most franchisors don't), so this starts from a typical home services profit margin (~15%) and applies it to the revenue you entered above -- adjust the percentage to your own realistic estimate.
Defaulted to a general home services industry benchmark, not a figure from Re-Bath's own filing -- this is a starting point to adjust, not a promise about what franchisees actually make.
At that profit, you'd break even in about
3.1–6.7 years
Weigh that payback period against what you already know: Re-Bath is opening more locations. A long payback period on a shrinking brand is a very different bet than the same payback period on a growing one.
Is Re-Bath actually growing?
Franchisors have to report, every year, how many locations opened, closed, or changed hands. Most franchise sites never show you this. Here it is:
Locations opened vs. closed, by year
GrowingFrom Item 20 of Re-Bath's FDD, the section franchisors use to disclose real openings and closings.
| Year | Franchised units, start | Franchised units, end | Net change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 110 | 124 | +14 |
| 2023 | 124 | 136 | +12 |
| 2024 | 136 | 145 | +9 |
Most recent year (2024): gained 9 franchised units, ending the year at 145 total.
What you're actually signing up for
The cost and growth numbers above are only part of the picture. These three FDD items are the ones a prospective franchisee tends to weigh most heavily once they're past the sticker price.
Training & ongoing support (Item 11)
Item 11: initial training is covered by the Initial Franchise Fee for a set number of attendees, held remotely and/or at ReBath's Phoenix headquarters. The real ongoing cost is the sliding Royalty described above plus the Advertising Contribution, escalatable to a combined 15% of Gross Sales ceiling.
Territory protection (Item 12)
Item 12: no exclusive territory, but a "Protected Territory" -- typically 750,000-1,250,000 people -- within which ReBath won't operate company-owned or franchise a competing Re-Bath business; territory size (and the Initial Franchise Fee charged for it) can be adjusted larger or smaller by negotiation.
Renewal & termination terms (Item 17)
Item 17: 10-year initial term with two 5-year renewal options. Renewal costs 25% of the then-current Initial Franchise Fee and requires signing the then-current form of franchise agreement, which may carry materially different terms than the original.
How Re-Bath compares to other Home Services franchises
Across the 6 home services franchises we've hand-verified so far, the typical range to open runs $177,391–$331,621, with royalties averaging around 8.3% of gross sales (based on the 4 of them that charge a flat %-of-revenue royalty).
Keep going
- Re-Bath and College Hunks Hauling Junk are both home services franchises; College Hunks Hauling Junk's total investment starts about $17,775 lower than Re-Bath's. College Hunks Hauling Junk Franchise
- Re-Bath and 1-800-GOT-JUNK? are both home services franchises; 1-800-GOT-JUNK?'s total investment starts about $93,575 lower than Re-Bath's. 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Franchise
Where this came from: California DFPI Registration (Initial/Late Renewal), App ID APP00003132, filed 8/1/2025, effective 11/7/2025. FDD issued July 22, 2025. Item 5: $50,000 Initial Franchise Fee for a Protected Territory of 750,000-1,250,000 people ($25,000 for each additional simultaneous Franchise Agreement). Item 6: royalty is not a flat percentage -- it's a density-based scale (6% of Gross Sales at job-site density under 0.04 people/person-unit, 5% at or above that density), escalatable to 8% as a penalty for violating pricing policy; left null here rather than forced into one number. Advertising Contribution is currently 2% of Gross Sales, escalatable to 6%, with the combined Advertising Contribution + Minimum Local Advertising Requirement capped at 15% of Gross Sales -- the parser initially misread that 15% cap as the ad-fund rate itself. Item 7 Total Estimated Initial Investment: $275,875-$606,925. Item 20 Table 1 franchised outlets, no company-owned; hqLocation corrected from the FTC's Washington, DC cover-page boilerplate to Re-Bath's real Phoenix, AZ address (Item 1). You can pull the same filing yourself from the California DFPI's public franchise search. Filed 2025-08-01. None of this is investment advice -- get the franchisor's current FDD and talk to a real attorney or accountant before you sign anything.
If you see a different unit count elsewhere: franchisors only have to refile their FDD annually, so the numbers here can run 6–18 months behind a franchisor's own real-time marketing claims -- which often aren't independently verified, and sometimes count signed-but-not-yet-open locations. A gap isn't necessarily an error on either side; it's two different snapshots in time from two different sources.